A newborn baby boy has been pulled alive from a sewer pipe in China in a case of attempted infanticide that has provoked an outpouring of public anger and condemnation online. Baby No 59, as he was later nicknamed from his hospital incubator number, was two days old and weighed 5lb when he was

An ambitious plan by the UK Government to export NHS expertise to China could be worth tens of billions of pounds to British businesses in the next few years, trade representatives claim. China faces a critical shortage of healthcare to meet the needs of its 1.3 billion-strong population, with

American regulators have struck a breakthrough deal with China to secure the release of audit documents relating to Chinese companies trading in the United States, following two years of talks. Frustrated US regulators have been prevented from examining the books of Chinese companies implicated in

The spotlight has been turned again on Foxconn after it was confirmed that two more employees of the electronics supplier had committed suicide in the past month. The Taiwanese manufacturer said that two people, who worked at its iPhone assembly plant in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou, had

Fund managers who between them control more than $1 trillion in assets were warned yesterday that China was in the grip of a debt addiction that could destabilise its financial system. Speaking at the annual CLSA China Forum in Beijing, Francis Cheung, the brokerage’s China head, said that the

China’s exports beat all expectations last month, but economists immediately decried the numbers as untrustworthy. Figures suggested that China had shipped 14.7 per cent more goods in April compared with the same month last year, leaving it with a trade surplus of $18.16 billion. Yet the numbers

A pronounced slowdown in China’s usually buoyant services sector last month has intensified fears that the rebound in the world’s second-largest economy may be running out of steam. The HSBC services purchasing managers’ index, a monthly gauge of the sector’s strength, dropped from 54.3 in March

Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s opposition leader, last night accused the Government of widespread fraud as the ruling coalition claimed to have won enough votes to extend its unbroken 56-year grip on power. After the closest election race since independence from Britain in 1957, Najib Razak’s governing

Malaysians began voting at polling booths across the country this morning in an historic general election that could usher in the first change of government since the South-East Asian nation gained independence from Britain in 1957. A record number of Malaysia’s 13.3 million registered voters are

Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition leader who spent years in prison for sodomy and corruption, has taken the lead in polls before tomorrow’s elections, raising the prospect of a change in government for the first time since independence from Britain. Mr Anwar’s Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Pact